ISSN: 1941-4137
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Will Schmit is a Midwestern poet transplanted to Northern California. He has been reading, writing, and performing poetry in between bouts of learning to play the saxophone, for over forty years.
Poets Resist
Edited by Alicia Cole
March 11, 2020
Edited by Alicia Cole
March 11, 2020
The Mask We Live Becomes Masculine
On the third day,
in the third person,
I wrote about my rape.
I used the broken end
of a beer bottle
to hold the paper down.
Being a boy
nobody asked what
I was wearing.
I learned assault
runs down your leg
as you walk down the hall.
What violence breeds
I recognize as
an unnamed cousin.
This thing of being a man
is undefined
by force.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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